IC 2441 NED01

IC 2441 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
514 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 514 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2441 NED01 as it looked roughly 514 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
IC 2442Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
IC 2433Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 2465Lenticular44 million ly
apart
IC 2466Elliptical62 million ly
apart
IC 2464Spiral65 million ly
apart
IC 2443Lenticular66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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